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A look at search engines with their own indexes
A thorough survey of independent search engines that crawl their own indexes, comparing quirks and strengths, handy for…
A Love Letter to Cassette Futurism
An essay on cassette futurism, the chunky, tactile retro-tech look of 1980s sci-fi screens and hardware, and why it feel…
A MacBook Touchscreen for $1
A clever hack that uses a small mirror and some computer vision to make an ordinary MacBook respond to touch, with demos…
A Neural Network That Writes Hangul by Hand
A write-up on training a recurrent neural network to generate Korean handwriting strokes, from collecting 4,500 lines wi…
A New Spline
Raph Levien explains a new spline that continues his Spiro curve work from his PhD thesis, with examples of smooth curve…
A Ninja's Handbook
A free online book about privacy, security and anonymity on the internet, with chapters that walk through practical ways…
A Physically-Based GPU Ray Tracer in Julia
A blog post from the Makie team showing how a physically-based ray tracer was written in Julia and run on the GPU, with…
A Primer on Bezier Curves
A long, richly illustrated and interactive guide to Bezier curves, with live graphics for splitting, flattening, offsett…
A Readable Wikipedia
A design experiment that restyles Wikipedia articles with a clean grid and better typography, showing how the world's bi…
A Real-Time 3D Shader on the Game Boy Color
A tinkerer pushes a Game Boy Color to render a real-time 3D shaded scene, explaining the math, the workflow and the tric…
A Receipt Printer Cured My Procrastination
A writer with ADHD prints each task on a thermal receipt and explains how video-game psychology helped him finally focus…
A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane
A first-person investigation into a viral Reddit post complaining about bots that turns out to be a bot itself, selling…
A Regular Expression to Check for Prime Numbers
The famous trick of testing whether a number is prime using nothing but a regular expression on a string of ones, explai…
A Requiem for a Dying Operating System
A tongue-in-cheek 1994 verse lament for the VMS operating system, sent to the Unix-Haters Handbook editors and preserved…
A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar
A clear guide to how lidar works in self-driving cars, covering time of flight, scanning methods, wavelengths and the tr…
A Simple GPU Hash Table
An article on building a simple hash table that runs on the GPU, explaining how thousands of threads insert and look up…
A Single Div
A showcase of illustrations and drawings created entirely with CSS using only a single HTML div element.
A Smart Bear
Longform articles from Jason Cohen on building two unicorns over two decades, one bootstrapped and one funded, drawing o…
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
The strange story of ghost characters in Japan's JIS X 0208 encoding: phantom kanji that were never real words yet haunt…
A Time Before Algorithms Took Over the 90's Web
A nostalgic essay on the chaotic, personal 90s web of handmade homepages and creative oddities, and how far it feels fro…
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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab
A 2006 insider's walk through the lab where Microsoft tested Office for Mac, with photos of rows of vintage Macs and sto…
A Toy RTOS Inside Super Mario Bros.
A mind-bending experiment that implements threads and a tiny operating system inside Super Mario Bros. on the NES using…
A Truly Naked Brutalist HTML Quine
A web page that is its own source code: raw, unstyled HTML displayed as the page itself, a small exercise in brutalist w…
A Visual Proof That Neural Nets Can Compute Any Function
Michael Nielsen's chapter with interactive widgets that show step by step why neural networks can approximate any functi…
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